A Mount Vernon gunman was arrested Wednesday night for killing his niece on a Bronx street in a dispute over an inherited home, according to authorities and sources.
Michael Foster, 58, allegedly shot Julia Anderson, 39, multiple times in the stomach as she was about to step into her black Jeep in the Wakefield section Monday night, according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.
Anderson, who also lived in nearby Mount Vernon, was found sprawled on the ground outside her ride on Murdock Avenue when police responded to a 911 call about the shooting, the sources said.
She was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where she died, cops said.
A dispute over an inherited home appears to have sparked the uncle’s rampage, sources said. The pair lived in the same residence in Mount Vernon.
Members of the NYPD’s Crime Scene Unit were seen raiding a Bell Avenue home in the Westchester County suburb associated with the pair late Wednesday.
Cops carried out brown paper bags of evidence, taking photos and examining a gun box by the leafy home.
Foster was slapped with charges for murder, manslaughter and 10 counts of criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
The alleged killer wore bright yellow shorts, socks and sandals, and kept his head down as cops walked him from the Bronx’s 47th Precinct to a police car Wednesday night.
Foster was awaiting his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.
Anderson’s mother, Beverley Patterson, told Fox5 that her daughter worked as a disability aide and was just a month away from her 40th birthday.
“She was very good, she kind of looks similar like me, although she’s tall, like 6 foot, I think,” Patterson told the outlet.
“I don’t know, she went to work and that was it, never heard anything from her again.”
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